Topic: Removing "Paragraph" as the default formatting sel
This is an awesome tool, integration was a breeze.
I have one usability tip though as far as using the format blocks. Since the formatting defaults to "paragraph" and the required action to set the formatting is "onChange" it gets a bit frustrating to have to set the selected text to something else and then back to "paragraph" so that you can set it to "paragraph".
To get around this i made the following changes.
File: editor_template.js
I changed
// Select formatblock
var selectElm = document.getElementById(editor_id + "_formatSelect");
if (selectElm) {
var elm = tinyMCE.getParentElement(node, "p,div,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,address");
if (elm) {
selectByValue(selectElm, "<" + elm.nodeName.toLowerCase() + ">");
} else
selectByValue(selectElm, "<p>");
}to...
// Select formatblock
var selectElm = document.getElementById(editor_id + "_formatSelect");
if (selectElm) {
var elm = tinyMCE.getParentElement(node, "p,div,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,address");
if (elm) {
selectByValue(selectElm, "<" + elm.nodeName.toLowerCase() + ">");
} else
selectByValue(selectElm, "<->");
}this is to prevent it from selecting the paragraph element by default.
I then created a place holder for our new bastardized "<->" tag in by replacing the following code (in the same file)
case "formatselect":
var html = '<select id="{$editor_id}_formatSelect" name="{$editor_id}_formatSelect" onchange="tinyMCE.execInstanceCommand('{$editor_id}','FormatBlock',false,this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);" class="mceSelectList">';
var formats = tinyMCE.getParam("theme_advanced_blockformats", "address,pre,p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6", true).split(',');
var lookup = [
['address', '{$lang_theme_address}'],
['p', '{$lang_theme_paragraph}'],
['pre', '{$lang_theme_pre}'],
['h1', '{$lang_theme_h1}'],
['h2', '{$lang_theme_h2}'],
['h3', '{$lang_theme_h3}'],
['h4', '{$lang_theme_h4}'],
['h5', '{$lang_theme_h5}'],
['h6', '{$lang_theme_h6}']
];with
case "formatselect":
var html = '<select id="{$editor_id}_formatSelect" name="{$editor_id}_formatSelect" onchange="tinyMCE.execInstanceCommand('{$editor_id}','FormatBlock',false,this.options[this.selectedIndex].value);" class="mceSelectList">';
var formats = tinyMCE.getParam("theme_advanced_blockformats", "-,address,pre,p,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6", true).split(',');
var lookup = [
['-','--Select'],
['address', '{$lang_theme_address}'],
['p', '{$lang_theme_paragraph}'],
['pre', '{$lang_theme_pre}'],
['h1', '{$lang_theme_h1}'],
['h2', '{$lang_theme_h2}'],
['h3', '{$lang_theme_h3}'],
['h4', '{$lang_theme_h4}'],
['h5', '{$lang_theme_h5}'],
['h6', '{$lang_theme_h6}']
];This is sweet cuz since the execCommand method doesn't recognize the <-> as a valid FormatBlock tag, it will actually remove any formatting on the block of text as well.
So now instead of defaulting to "Paragraph" it shows "--Select" or whatever you define for your string. I didn't bother adding it to the language file or anything, partly cuz i don't plan to use any other languages, but mostly cuz i'm lazy 
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